World 1 · Hydrogen without planetary orbits · 9 minMore structure, same rule
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At n=3, l can be 0, 1 or 2. The real d states have l=2 and therefore two angular nodes. Their shapes come from the angular wavefunction, while the radial function sets the distance scale. Hydrogen energies depend only on n in this nonrelativistic model.
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